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The Family Desulfarculaceae

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Desulfarculaceae is the only family within the order Desulfarculales (Kuever et al. 2005a) that embraces a single genus Desulfarculus. Besides their 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogeny, the only member of the family is defined by a wide range of morphological and chemotaxonomic properties for the delineation to other genera and species. Strictly anaerobic, having a respiratory type of metabolism. Fermentative metabolism was not observed. Members are mesophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. Members of the family are found in various habitats as indicated by clone sequences. The only described species is chemoorganoheterotroph and chemolithoheterotroph. The only member oxidizes organic substrates completely to carbon dioxide with sulfate as electron acceptor.

This contribution is a modified and updated version of a previous family description (Kuever et al. 2005b).

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Bremen Institute for Materials Testing, Paul-Feller-Str. 1, 28199, Bremen, Germany

    Jan Kuever

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen Lory

  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Kuever, J. (2014). The Family Desulfarculaceae. In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39044-9_270

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